Principles of Freedom

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

John Adams

A Rising Sun

"At length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun."

Benjamin Franklin

The Flow of Powers

"The national legislative powers ought to flow immediately from the people."

James Wilson (Delegate from Pennsylvania)

Foundation of Liberty

"The great fabric to be raised would be more stable and durable if it should rest on the solid foundation of the people themselves."

James Madison

The Brightest Morn

"I am mortified beyond expression when I view the clouds which have spread over the brightest morn that ever dawned upon any country."

George Washington

Universal Truth

"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
James Madison

The Reality of Power

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
John Adams

Force

"Force cannot change right."

Thomas Jefferson

The Subject of Religion

"The subject of religion, a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved, I have considered it as a matter between every man and his maker, in which no other, & far less the public had a right to intermeddle."

Thomas Jefferson